If only it were that simple.

fyeahhistorymajorheraldicbeast:

Page limit? Editing? as a history major I don’t know the meaning of them horrible words!

Editing is good. Editing is always good. What is so wonderful about pointlessly rambling and long-winded articles/essays/books/whatever ya got, anyway, aside from excusing their author’s laziness?

(Unless there was some ironic subtext in the meme that I completely missed.)

fyeahhistorymajorheraldicbeast:

For other reasons too. But generally this one.

I reside here.

Or just best day ever.

fyeahhistorymajorheraldicbeast:

The discussion was made even better by the group of us being a linguist, an History major with a focus on Ancient Classical periods, and a Classics major

fyeahhistorymajorheraldicbeast:

This is what happens when you’re drunk and maudlin and realise that pretty soon there will be nobody left alive who has memories of the 1910s.

No tumblr, sorry.

fyeahhistorymajorheraldicbeast:

The great paradox.

fyeahhistorymajorheraldicbeast:

I try, Welsh vowels, again and again I try…

Ugh, that time last week when my father corrected me on a German name, of all things. I wanted to bury my head in the sand. (NB: My father doesn’t even know German. Double shame for me.)

fyeahhistorymajorheraldicbeast:

If I want to set anything anywhere, I end up spending hours looking up the location and whether a turn of phrase was in use at the time.

THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS

grenadierfifer:

fyeahhistorymajorheraldicbeast:

“See photos of ordinary people from your favorite time period: guess dates based on styles of clothing.”
A friend of mine once went around the whole student union doing this to all the old photos of our campus. 

My hobby.